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December 17, 2009

In 2009, ARTstor continued to expand the breadth and depth of the Digital Library by adding many important and unique collections. ARTstor released 25 new collections, added content to 19 existing collections, and reached agreements with 33 new museums, photo archives, libraries, scholars, professional photographers, and artists and artists’ estates. The ARTstor Digital Library now makes available more than 1,087,000 images in the US and more than 860,000 images internationally.

New collections launched (25)

Expanded collections (19)

New collection agreements (33)

2009 MLA Annual Convention
Philadelphia, PA
December 27 – 30, 2009

ARTstor staff will attend the 2009 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from December 28 to December 30. An ARTstor representative will be available at booth # 809 in the Franklin Hall at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. For more information about the conference please see the MLA website.

ARTstor has collaborated with Christopher D. Roy to share approximately 3,500 images of African art and culture, now available in the Digital Library. The collection features images of West African art and culture, including ceremonial objects as well as documentation of their social context, use, and manufacture, such as performances employing masks, or techniques used in producing pottery, iron, leather, and weaving. Roy is Professor of Art History and Elizabeth M. Stanley Faculty Fellow of African Art History at the University of Iowa. Since 1970, he has been photographing the rural villages and towns of the Bobo, Bwa, Fulani, Lobi, Mossi, and Nuna peoples in West Africa—primarily in Burkina Faso, but also in Ghana, Nigeria, and Niger.

To view the Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography.” Or search the keyword: “christopher roy”.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography collection page.

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Approximately 1,400 new images from Ralph Lieberman are now available in ARTstor. This latest release includes architecture and public sculpture in the United States, particularly museum architecture, in the Midwest (Chicago, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Toledo, OH; Detroit, MI), and New England (Boston, MA; Williamstown, MA; and New Haven, CT). Lieberman, an art historian and photographer, has previously photographed the architecture and public art of Philadelphia, PA, for ARTstor. ARTstor is also sponsoring an ongoing campaign for Lieberman to document museum architecture; future releases to the collection will feature additional sites in the United States, Canada, and Spain. In addition to sponsoring new photography by Lieberman, ARTstor has also partnered with Harvard University to digitize the Ralph Lieberman Archive of Renaissance and Baroque Architecture.

To view the Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography.” Or search the keywords: “ralph lieberman”.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography collection page.

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Approximately 170 images of modern and contemporary Latin American art from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Uruguay are now available in the Digital Library. The artists represented include: Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz Diez, Gego, Alfredo Hlito, Alejandro Otero, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel, Jesús Soto, and Joaquín Torres García, among others. These images augment ARTstor’s representation of Latin America and future releases will include additional images of colonial, modern, and contemporary art from Latin America.

To view the Latin American Art collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Latin American Art.” Or search the keywords: “latin american art” “private collection”.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Latin American Art collection page.

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